This past holiday season I was in a truly morose mood, but just this past week I talked to someone that gave me a heads up… how we are the creators of our own joy. “You are the one that has to create joy in your life” he said, and then followed them with examples… trips, events and the like.<\/p>\n
I had to think about that for a moment, a day, a week.<\/p>\n
I’ve always been the one that creates “moments” in my family’s life, but it’s difficult to think of “fun” things to do with my son.\u00a0He never wants to go anywhere because it’s so hard or it’s too hot and\u00a0It’s difficult to create moments when the only thing that comes to mind is an amusement park, or a museum or a national park, which means lots of walking, traveling great distances and many transfers which NIcky hates. Besides,\u00a0Nicky does not have much fun in these places. Nicky’s not into sports and he hates loud music, so a sport or concert is out of the question. Yes, I can take him to the movies every now and again, but it has to be a movie he wants to see… luckily there is one coming up that both Nicky & Connor are eager to see, called “A Dog’s Purpose<\/a>“, so we’ll go see that for sure. Besides that I was at a loss.<\/p>\n This weekend, however, we were fortunate enough to attend a fundraiser called ROCK4EB for the EBMRF (Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation ebkids.org<\/a>) and I was reminded how life can be joyous if only we think outside of the box. Whoever thought in a million years I would meet Brad Pitt? Not me. Never in my wildest dreams. I shook his hand and thanked him for supporting research for a cure and he took my hand in both of his and made my day, my month, my year, my decade.<\/p>\n
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